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Is it not strange to call it an Atom? Atom is etymologically indivisible, when here we can have arbitrary structure.
by ansgri 14y ago
Is it not strange to call it an Atom? Atom is etymologically indivisible, when here we can have arbitrary structure.
- daeken 14y agoYeah, it is -- I've never found it to be a particularly great term, but it's what's used.
- lloeki 14y agoAtoms can be linked together to form an arbitrary structure. After all, a tree is a graph.
- Evbn 14y agoBut once they are linked we call the linkage a molecule or compound.
- msbarnett 14y agoIndeed it would be much more accurate to call it a Turtle, since it's Turtles all the way down. (Under absolutely no circumstances should anyone actually do this)